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The Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) was an influential cultural initiative, begun in London, England, in 1966 and active until about 1972,〔("Caribbean Artists Movement" ), in Richard M. Juang and Noelle Morrisette (eds), ''Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History'', Vol. 1, ABC-CLIO, 2008, pp. 234-35.〕 that focused on the works being produced by Caribbean writers, visual artists, poets, dramatists, film makers, actors and musicians. The key people involved in setting up CAM were Edward Kamau Brathwaite, John La Rose and Andrew Salkey.〔("John La Rose" ), GPI website.〕〔Kathleen Ho, ("The Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) and the Trinidad February Revolution of 1970" ), Northwestern University.〕 ==History== In 1968, Brathwaite wrote about CAM's origins, dating them back to a small informal meeting held on 19 December 1966 in his London flat in Mecklenburgh Square〔 (although Louis James suggests that the "seed ideas of what was to become CAM were germinating in Brathwaite's activities at Mona in the previous decade"):〔James (2003), "The Caribbean Artists Movement", p. 211.〕
The BBC programme ''Caribbean Voices'', to which Brathwaite was also a contributor, is considered a precursor of CAM.〔 The journal ''Savacou'' was started as a platform for CAM, connecting its activities in Britain, the Caribbean region and the African diaspora, and elsewhere internationally. La Rose began selling and publishing books, under the name New Beacon Books, because of the demand for material that was stimulated by the formation of CAM. Other notable artists and intellectuals associated with CAM include C. L. R. James, Stuart Hall, Wilson Harris, Kenneth Ramchand, Ronald Moody, Aubrey Williams, Gordon Rohlehr, Christopher Laird, Louis James, Orlando Patterson, Ivan Van Sertima, Althea McNish, Donald Hinds, James Berry, Errol Lloyd and Anne Walmsley. Linton Kwesi Johnson is among a younger generation of Caribbean writers to have been inspired by CAM during the early '70s.〔("Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Dub Poetry and the Political Aesthetics of Carnival in Britain". )〕〔Sandra Courtman, ("Caribbean Artists' Movement" )], in Alison Donnell (ed.), ''Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture'', Routledge, 2002, p. 64–65.〕 Walmsley has written a comprehensive appraisal of the movement in ''The Caribbean Artists Movement, 1966-1972: A Literary and Cultural History'' (1992), published by New Beacon Books. CAM is acknowledged as being particularly significant in helping to "spark interest in the work of Britain's artists of color".〔Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd, ("Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966-1996" ). Curator's essay for ''Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966-1996'', March 1998.〕 The first CAM conference was held in 1967 in London,〔D. A. Dunkley, (''Readings in Caribbean History and Culture: Breaking Ground'' ), Lexington Books, 2011, note 55, p. 252.〕 and a subsequent conference at the University of Kent in 1969.〔Louis James, ("The Caribbean Artists Movement" ), in Bill Schwarz, ''West Indian Intellectuals in Britain'', Manchester University Press, 2003, p. 209.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Caribbean Artists Movement」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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